As we start to see more users join, it's inevitable to see trolls (especially low-effort trolls) making more of an appearance and trying to be controversial and noticed....
Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?...
Have you read the manga? I don't usually go for manga personally, but that one was very much well worth it. It pretty much starts and ends in the same place as the film but takes a very different route to get there - which is not surprising as Katsuhiro Otomo had only written the first volume or so when he was asked to work on the film!
It annoys me that it was so massively overshadowed by How To Train Your Dragon 2, which was also computer animated and came out at about the same time. Big Hero 6 a far better film!
"The de facto relocation of Russian forces, the Wagner Group, to Belarus, together with its head Yevgeny Prigozhin, is underway. These are very negative signals for us," Polish President Andrzej Duda said.
I have used Anna's archive some to great success. I've yet to not find what I'm looking for there if its a book. I've had to try a few downloads on occasion but there have been a few options so that's fine
I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...
From what I hear, they're authoritarian communist, not fascist. Fascism is not just a synonym for authoritarianism, it's a specific economically far right authoritarian political position.
You can dislike both (I do too) but they are not the same, and with the far right on the rise and making power grabs the world over right now we need that distinction
A team of researchers at Microsoft Quantum has reportedly achieved a first milestone toward creating a reliable and practical quantum computer. In their paper, published in the journal Physical Review B, the group describes the milestone and their plans to build a reliable quantum computer over the next 25 years.
I seem to be noticing a little bit of a trend lately that the out-of-box experience and overall quality of "mostly should just work" desktop-focused Linux distributions has declined. Usually, you could grab an .iso of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, install it and have a decent enough platform out of the box to tweak...
You know how OP said 2001 was pretentious nonsense? That's how I felt about Andor. It was actively bad, and I struggle to see all the praise it gets as anything other than Morbius level trolling! It was badly written, badly plotted, was trying to be about three things at once and didn't do any of them well, and was about six episodes too long. It's what really turned me off Starwars!
I always thought the biggest problem was the marketing - John Carter is not a name that tells you anything at all about the film's setting and I don't recall anything much promoting it suggesting it might be that John Carter even if you did know the source material at all!
But i am with you, it was a fun popcorn movie, and sometimes that's what you really want
I'm not trolling. I honestly thought it was utterly awful on pretty much every level people seem to praise it for and cannot understand why anyone liked it! The first three episodes should have been one, the next three should have been two (and I would have started with them and had the first arc as a flashback), iirc literally nothing happened in the 7th episode except for the last two minuites when he was arrested for arbitrary and stupid reasons, then next two episodes were just messy, and then I gave up because I had been told "oh it all comes together at this point" too many times and it was just making me angry.
I mean okay accusing it of being Morbius levels of bad might have been a troll, it wasn't as bad as Morbius (but few things are) but it was nowhere near good, let alone deserving of the praise lauded upon it!
I reread the Caves Of Steel trilogy recently, the first was written in the fifties, the last in the eighties. The difference is striking but not necessarily good! The only woman of note in the last one does have more agency than the only woman (at all?) in the first, but she is more obsessed with sex than a 14 year old boy! It's honestly a little bit creepy
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
So let me start off by saying that I recognize that there was initially a genuine problem with people who didn't want NSFW content being exposed to it....
A sealed hab dome, containing a fish breeding tank that outputs a portion every so often into another tank, and a flock of penguins. There are also penguin shaped space suits mounted next to the air locks
He worked hard for them, he's a hard worker, perhaps the hardest worker, people come up to him with tears in their eyes and ask "how did you get those impeachments?" and he says "I just worked hard", because that's what he does, he works hard to be impeached...
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
Hello kbin! Since there’s a lot of new users migrating to this platform, I decided to make a short guide to creating and moderating a magazine. This will be a quick and short guide since there will be a lot of new features coming soon. I might make a new guide when a few major tools come, but in the meantime, I will...
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
Would you like to provide any evidence or reasoning or, like, any conscious thought at all rather than spewing whatever shit a pig farmer in the Philippines says?
So that's a no then. The daily Heil is not a good source for anything, the others are bullshit too (yeah okay there are photos of hunter bidens dick on his lap top. So what?). Plus completely irrelevant to whether trump is a fascist shitstain (and he is both of those)
Oh, and I am not going to do research to try to find pivtures of people having sex with kids. Why would you even suggest such a thing?
Reminder: reddit may be dead, but trolls are not. (kbin.social)
As we start to see more users join, it's inevitable to see trolls (especially low-effort trolls) making more of an appearance and trying to be controversial and noticed....
What's your most-loved non-star movie/show? (kbin.social)
Most Scifi fans I have ran into can pretty quickly rank the four stars –BattleSTAR Galactica, STAR Trek, STARgate, and STAR wars, but what lesser-known or less-prestigious shows hold a special place in your heart?...
NATO leaders urge response to Wagner's alleged redeployment to Belarus (kyivindependent.com)
"The de facto relocation of Russian forces, the Wagner Group, to Belarus, together with its head Yevgeny Prigozhin, is underway. These are very negative signals for us," Polish President Andrzej Duda said.
What's the easiest way to cure severe constipation?
I prefer regular foods that help with constipation, not meds....
Z-Library Releases Tor-Enabled Desktop Launcher to Improve ‘Accessibility’ (torrentfreak.com)
Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances (kbin.social)
I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...
What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem? (kbin.social)
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
Microsoft claims to have engineered a new way to represent a logical qubit with hardware stability, making quantum computing viable (phys.org)
A team of researchers at Microsoft Quantum has reportedly achieved a first milestone toward creating a reliable and practical quantum computer. In their paper, published in the journal Physical Review B, the group describes the milestone and their plans to build a reliable quantum computer over the next 25 years.
When the Wagner group turns around to fight Russia (media.kbin.social)
What are your "weirdest" pizza toppings or other weird food combos?
One I've tried is cucumber with tomato sauce. It didn't taste so bad.
Is the out-of-the-box quality of desktop-focused Linux distros declining recently?
I seem to be noticing a little bit of a trend lately that the out-of-box experience and overall quality of "mostly should just work" desktop-focused Linux distributions has declined. Usually, you could grab an .iso of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, install it and have a decent enough platform out of the box to tweak...
The Supreme Court’s latest opinion means innocent people must remain in prison (www.vox.com)
Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion ensures that innocent people will spend years behind bars.
What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? (kbin.social)
It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?...
Is there a food that is cheap, delicious and healthy at the same time?
I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved....
Open source video games
Ive been playing zero-k recently, and wondering what other great open source video games are out there?
The Anti-NSFW measures have gone a bit far... (kbin.social)
So let me start off by saying that I recognize that there was initially a genuine problem with people who didn't want NSFW content being exposed to it....
[YouTube] Redhat goes CLOSED SOURCE? | Chris Titus Tech (www.youtube.com)
Potentially this means that Fedora and CentOS stream do not get timely updates implemented in RHEL....
This is how I want to go out! (media.kbin.social)
If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be? (kbin.social)
For me i would just place like random paintings, like NASA would be very confused on why Mars would have paintings lmao.
House to vote on Biden impeachment (www.axios.com)
Right-wing lawmakers are proving increasingly willing to force potentially divisive votes.
/kbin server update - or how the server didn't blow up (kbin.social)
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
A quick guide to creating and moderating magazines (kbin.social)
Hello kbin! Since there’s a lot of new users migrating to this platform, I decided to make a short guide to creating and moderating a magazine. This will be a quick and short guide since there will be a lot of new features coming soon. I might make a new guide when a few major tools come, but in the meantime, I will...
Distromums (lemmy.world)
Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?
I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a...
Trump now claims classified documents were ‘planted’ in Mar-a-Lago boxes (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump rants at Special Counsel as he scrambles after being hit with 37-count indictment